What Can Others Learn from Stratfor’s Mistakes?
January 31, 2012
[By ExtraHop Networks EMEA VP Owen Cole] In today’s fickle world, we expect services to be working 24/7, and with the rise of cloud computing and the increasing complexity of networks for mission-critical applications, it is vital that organisations are able to see, predict and fix issues in real time. Businesses now need to move towards a “top down” approach that implies better intelligence to the network and applications, and in a world where many businesses are now dependent on the internet to provide revenue, proactive monitoring and troubleshooting are things that no organisation can afford to be without. [Read more...]
Diagnose Server Performance Problems
January 12, 2012
Many problems that seem server-based oftentimes are caused by issues at the network, database, and storage tiers, says Jesse Rothstein, CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop. “Ultimately, you need to look at these problems in a holistic, end-to-end manner, although the distinction can be tricky,” Rothstein says. [Read more...]
ExtraHop Networks Included in Gartner's APM Innovators List
January 9, 2012
ExtraHop Networks, a provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, has been named in the December 2011 Gartner report, “APM Innovators: Driving APM Technology and Delivery Evolution.” … ExtraHop’s APM solution stands out in the crowd by delivering a comprehensive, network-based view of application performance spanning the network, Web, database, and storage tiers, including auxiliary services such as storage, DNS, and directory services, according to the report. [Read more...]
ExtraHop Helps IT See Networks in Real-Time
December 29, 2011
With the amount of network traffic today, diagnosing problems can be like “looking for a snowflake in an avalanche,” says Jesse Rothstein, CEO and cofounder, ExtraHop Networks. … The company’s platform provides agentless, network-based application performance management (APM) solutions that measure, map, and assist with troubleshooting at the transaction level in dynamic environments. [Read more...]
Differences Between Approaches to APM – A Chat with Jesse Rothstein of ExtraHop
December 9, 2011
After reading a Virtually Speaking piece on one of many competitors in the application performance management (APM) market, Jesse Rothstein, CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop, reached out to arrange a conversation about the rapidly growing area. … Jesse believes that the best approach is to follow the network traffic and learn who is talking to who, what is talking to what, where components are located, how those components are moving throughout the network and then apply sophisticated analysis to that traffic data. [Read more...]
ExtraHop Application Performance Management
December 8, 2011
With all types of applications moving to the cloud, it’s never been more important for organizations to consider their application performance management strategy. In fact, new approaches to application performance management such as ones offered by ExtraHop Networks offer organizations a way to ensure their applications are performing and scaling at the speeds needed. [Read more...]
Oracle Application Performance Management Like a Detective Novel
November 29, 2011
T2 Systems is mostly running Oracle Database 11g R2 on Windows – as well as Oracle Enterprise Manager – and so it looked first to Oracle for a solution. But it found that Oracle was "focused almost exclusively on the database," Hutchins said. … So the company looked elsewhere. It eventually came upon ExtraHop, which can look at multiple IT layers – the application, database, network and storage – to diagnose a performance problem. Hutchins said he liked how he was able to look at several layers on one screen without having to log into three or four different servers. [Read more...]
Adding an Appliance to the Network for Enhanced Application Performance Management
November 29, 2011
ExtraHop’s appliance approach provides some interesting differentiators from its software-only competitors. Because the product comes ready to install, ExtraHop can be deployed in a data center in under a day. Its agentless technology provides automatic discovery of devices and applications and is a passive network component. The product is affordable, with a per-appliance cost that includes the necessary software. The largest of the two versions of ExtraHop supports up to 10GB of processing, making it fairly economical to deploy across large data processing environments. Companies like Alaska Airlines, The Seattle Times Company, and Applied Discover/Lexis Nexis are utilizing ExtraHop’s product to pinpoint and troubleshoot the root cause of application performance problems. [Read more...]
5 Reasons to Avoid Agents for Application Performance Management
November 21, 2011
Now is the time to reassess old assumptions. Already-pressed IT teams cannot afford to deal with the headaches associated with host-based instrumentation any longer. IT organizations owe it to themselves to consider new approaches to managing their application performance. Network-based APM offers an elegantly simple alternative that delivers comprehensive health and performance data while completely avoiding problems inherent to gathering host-based performance data. [Read more...]
ExtraHop Takes Agentless Approach to App Management
November 16, 2011
The 100-person startup, co-founded by alumnus of performance management mainstay F5 Networks and boosted by $19 million in venture capital funding, thinks it can beat them all (and the legacy management vendors as well) with an approach it claims is dramatically less expensive, easier to install, and provides more in-depth information. [Read more...]
Trust in the Cloud is All About Transparency
October 31, 2011
Network-based APM makes it possible for service providers to give their customers an unprecedented level of visibility into the behavior of cloud applications, provide proactive notifications about potential slowdowns, and take the initiative in communicating about service delivery problems. With this type of transparency into what is happening and why, backed by corresponding SLAs, the cloud finally can gain the level of credibility it needs to take on mission-critical enterprise applications. [Read more...]
What Will It Take to Migrate Business-Critical Apps to the Cloud?
October 31, 2011
[By ExtraHop Networks CEO Jesse Rothstein] When it comes to the cloud, everyone wants in—that is, everyone except the owners of business-critical applications. Before they make the physical-to-virtual or on-premises-to-cloud transition, application owners need assurances that they can maintain visibility into how their business-critical applications are performing. [Read more...]
12 Hot Products To See At Oracle OpenWorld 2011
September 30, 2011
ExtraHop Networks will be demonstrating its network-based application performance monitoring system for troubleshooting and proactively managing Oracle-dependent applications. In addition to passively monitoring Oracle databases, the product helps ensure optimal performance across network, Web, middleware and storage tiers of an application network, according to the company. [Read more...]
EMA Validates ExtraHop's Bridge between Application, Network Performance Management
August 29, 2011
ExtraHop Networks, a provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, announced the availability of a new report that discusses the need for APM solutions that “bridge organizational boundaries and provide comprehensive understanding of application performance.” [Read more...]
Gaining Virtualization Visibility
August 3, 2011
According to ExtraHop Networks CEO Jesse Rothstein, the EH1000v as a virtual appliance gives IT organizations a low-cost way of gaining visibility in virtual servers without having to deploy any additional hardware. [Read more...]
Application Performance Management for Big Data
July 21, 2011
[By ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein] Without a doubt, Big Data will pose significant challenges for enterprise applications, especially in the area of application performance management (APM). More data—both structured and unstructured—means more traffic, more transactions and more complexity for back-end IT systems. [Read more...]
ExtraHop Announces Virtual Appliance for APM, the EH1000v
July 12, 2011
ExtraHop Networks, a premier provider of network-based application performance management solutions, has introduced its virtual appliance for APM, the EH1000v at Cisco Live. [Read more...]
ExtraHop Launches New Application Performance Management Tool
July 12, 2011
Network-based application performance management (APM) technology provider ExtraHop Networks has introduced its virtual appliance for APM, the EH1000v. The company said the new offering offers real-time transaction analysis at up to 1Gbps speeds for applications running in virtual and cloud environments, about 10 times faster than the existing products. [Read more...]
ExtraHop Releases Network Aware APM Virtual Appliance
July 11, 2011
ExtraHop is a “network aware APM” vendor that has historically focused on putting an appliance on a mirror or span port of a switch and then using deep packet inspection techniques and TCP/IP flow analysis techniques to understand the performance of applications running on the network from the perspective of the network. Today, ExtraHop has announced the addition of a virtual appliance to its product line – allowing for the data collection appliance to be implemented entirely in software, and to us the virtual mirror port on the vSphere vSwitch to collect its data. [Read more...]
ExtraHop's Solutions Now Support Decryption and Analysis of 2048-bit SSL-Encrypted Application Data
July 6, 2011
According to a recent announcement by ExtraHop Networks, its network-based application performance management (APM) solutions now support decryption and analysis of 2048-bit secure sockets layer (SSL)-encrypted application data. The new feature ensures improved security and application monitoring capabilities. [Read more...]
ExtraHop Addresses 2,048-bit SSL Decryption Performance Penalty
June 7, 2011
It's still early days for 2,048-bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption/decryption, but privately held ExtraHop Networks, a specialist in network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, is betting it won't take long for the significantly more secure standard to be adopted, with major implications for application monitoring. [Read more...]
ExtraHop Networks' SSL Decryption Prevents Application Performance Management Blind Spots
June 7, 2011
ExtraHop Networks, a provider of network-based application performance management solutions, has added 2048-bit secure sockets layer (SSL) decryption and analysis functionality to help organizations remove application performance management blind spots. [Read more...]
May 26, 2011
Application Inspection Triggers: New Approach for Making Application Performance Data Relevant — ExtraHop Networks recently announced version 3.5 of their Application Delivery Assurance system, a key part of which is a technology called Application Inspection Triggers. This capability allows organizations to define metrics to be captured at network speeds through the use of scripts that are customized to solve a particular problem. [Read more...]
InformationWeek TV: Interop Las Vegas 2011
May 26, 2011
ExtraHop Tackles Application Performance Management. ExtraHop’s appliance captures full transactions for detailed, real-time performance analysis. [Watch video...]
May 25, 2011
Jesse Rothstein, CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop, interviews with Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMCnet [Watch video...]
ExtraHop, SevOne Form Network Monitoring Technology Alliance
April 27, 2011
ExtraHop Networks, an application performance management specialist, and SevOne, focused on network performance management, have inked a technology alliance. The goal: Deliver, both companies claim, “the industry’s best application-aware network performance management system” to ExtraHop and SevOne clients. Here’s the update. [Read more...]
Application Performance Monitoring that Goes the ExtraHop
April 7, 2011
Monitoring application performance has always been important for organizations, especially businesses that rely on those applications to generate revenue or perform a critical service. How that monitoring is carried out can vary widely. I am surprised at the number of IT professionals using their phone as an application performance monitoring tool: basically, they wait until the phone rings and users complain about poor application performance, then do something.. [Read more...]
DB2 Support Added to ExtraHop Networks Offerings
March 15, 2011
ExtraHop Networks, a provider of network and application performance management (APM) solutions, announced it now supports IBM's DB2 database. The addition of DB2 rounds out ExtraHop's support for the top three providers, IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft. ExtraHop customers now will be able to monitor database transactions in real time without having to run invasive tools such as SQL profilers and agents, which tend to degrade performance. [Read more...]
Application Performance Management and Delivery Assurance Support in Sight for IBM DB2
March 7, 2011
ExtraHop Networks, a provider of network and application performance management (APM) solutions, announced its support for IBM DB2, an enterprise database system. With the addition of IBM DB2, the ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system supports seven enterprise databases, including open-source and premium database systems from vendors such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase, and PostgreSQL. [Read more...]
Keynote, ExtraHop Team to Offer More Complete Application Performance Picture
February 8, 2011
ExtraHop sells a hardware appliance for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) from the inside of the firewall, monitoring network traffic to find applications slowdowns and other problems, firing off alerts to admins after diagnosing these problems. [Read more...]
Keynote, ExtraHop Team to Offer More Complete Application Performance Picture
January 18, 2011
Marrying their application performance management (APM) solutions, Keynote Systems and ExtraHop Networks can now offer a more complete view of how an application is performing as it traverses from the Web front end to the back end. [Read more…]
Keynote Systems, ExtraHop partner to provide real-time transaction analysis
January 14, 2011
Keynote Systems, a provider of Internet and mobile cloud monitoring, and ExtraHop Networks, a provider of network and application performance management (APM) offerings, have launched a joint offering that provides companies with both synthetic and real-time transaction analysis from the end-user across the entire datacentre. [Read more…]
Keynote Partners with ExtraHop
January 12, 2011
As part of an effort to tightly integrate Web application monitoring and application performance management (APM), Keynote Systems and ExtraHop Networks have formed a technology partnership. [Read more…]
Ensuring That Flight Takes Off – From The Data Center
November 30, 2010
Many applications are used by airlines to ensure on-time flights and delays or problems in any of these applications can result in delays on the tarmac. Discover how companies are using application performance management technology to avoid detect and even prevent issues in the data center and delays on the runway. [Read more…]
Virtual Packet Loss: The Silent Killer of Network Performance
October 21, 2010
As many enterprise IT managers have come to realize, server virtualization is both an operational blessing and a curse. On the upside, virtualization enables IT managers to consolidate servers, create efficiencies, and reduce infrastructure costs. It's the foundation of the next-generation, highly dynamic data center — an agile infrastructure capable of supporting today's always-on and ever-demanding business operations — and a pathway to an internal cloud. [Read more…]
Root-cause analysis made easier
July 30, 2010
Alaska Airlines slashes troubleshooting with ExtraHop Network's unique network management appliance [Read more…]
ExtraHop Networks Changes the Troubleshooting Game: Interop Video
May 21, 2010
At Interop this year, TMCnet had the opportunity to speak with a number of key industry players, including Jesse Rothstein CEO and Founder with ExtraHop Networks. Rothstein visited the TMCnet media booth for an interview captured in this video. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Networks Demo at Interop Las Vegas 2010
May 4, 2010
Jesse Rothstein, Founder & CEO interviews with Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director [Watch video…]
Interop Las Vegas 2010 – Cloud Based Stream Analysis
May 4, 2010
Raja Mukerji, President and co-founder of ExtraHop, discusses Network Timeout, a free public service that provides a community-based analysis system to examine data flows in context. [Watch video…]
April 28, 2010
Category: Best Startup?ExtraHop Networks As a relative newcomer to the network management space, ExtraHop Networks gets its foot in the door with a promise of performance and scalability combined with simplicity. [Read more…]
April 28, 2010
Category: Network Management, Monitoring & Testing?ExtraHop Networks — Network Timeout ExtrahHop's Network Timeout is a free application analysis tool that takes packet captures and presents application analysis reports that can be used for trouble-shooting and application performance management. [Read more…]
Interop's hot new tech products
April 27, 2010
Product name: Network Timeout Key features: Free Web service provides "sophisticated analysis of network packet captures" and gives network and application experts a place to collaborate and troubleshoot problems. ExtraHop says the community-based Web site will "improve access to network- and application-analysis solutions and build a broad technical knowledge base among IT professionals." [Read more…]
Free Service Analyzes Packet Traffic Offline
April 27,2010
ExtraHop Networks wants to make an impression on network managers with a new free service that allows them to analyze packet traffic patterns offline. [Read more…]
April 26, 2010
Seattle-based ExtraHop Networks, a network-management technology startup, said today it has formed an alliance with F5 Networks (NASDAQ GS: FFIV), also based in Seattle, to collaborate on new products and marketing and distribution efforts. [Read more…]
10 IT management technology start-ups to watch
November 30, 2009
Why it's worth watching: In the realm of advanced computing and virtual systems, the network matters. And more important, application performance across a next-generation network matters because it directly impacts business transactions. ExtraHop provides data that both network engineers and application performance managers need to understand how to fine-tune the environment to best support business transactions. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Goes Extra Mile For Network Monitoring
October 28, 2009
Why You Should Care: ExtraHop says its Application Delivery Assurance System is the first network monitoring tool to provide visibility across all seven OSI layers of the network, leading to better network troubleshooting and application performance. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Networks – Favorite Startup
NWJobs People's Picks 2009
This Seattle-based network management company is, in the words of one happy employee, "a model startup." Launched in December 2008 by two engineering veterans of F5 Networks, it's got all the essential elements: a vibrant energy among a razor-sharp group of people who want to introduce something new to the market; a work-hard-play-hard mentality that finds the whole staff out together playing bar trivia one night and chatting online about cloud technology at 2 a.m. the next; and yes, a ping pong, er, conference table. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance System v2.0
July 17, 2009
Tools that help IT managers manage and view network applications can be difficult to use and offer little application visibility. However, ExtraHop’s Application Delivery Assurance system v2.0 provides just the opposite. [Read more…]
Marc Andreessen Sees Big Opportunity in Web's Infrastructure
July 5, 2009
WebappVM, Apptio, ExtraHop and Good Data are some of their current investments in the infrastructure of the web. Marc said they would be looking at more investments in cloud computing startups. “We think that networking is going to follow the same curve as the workstation,” Andreessen said. Moore’s law is going to allow companies to build smart, next-generation devices that are based on a commodity infrastructure platform. [Read more…]
Network performance management evolution: Involving other IT domains
June 11, 2009
"I think ExtraHop is doing a great job of jumping right in and giving details that both the network people want to see, as well as the application support people want to see," he said. "And by providing that combined viewpoint, they really get buy-in from both those teams." [Read more…]
ExtraHop Networks upgrades troubleshooting system
May 26, 2009
As more network equipment vendors take on 10 Gigabit Ethernet, ExtraHop Networks instrumented its network and application performance management technology to be able to monitor such large-scale 10G environments. [Read more…]
Interop: les premiers signes de la reprise dans la dépense IT?
May 25, 2009
ExtraHop is a startup specializing in network performance management, run by some of the engineers who worked on BIG-IP from F5. Their agent-less solution aims to identify the origins of performance problems by analysing the data moving over the network from layers 4 to 7. Their solution appears very promising in a very fragmented market. [Read more…]
NYK Business Systems Americas – ExtraHop customer profile
May 4, 200449
I recently had the opportunity to communicate with the Application Support Manager at NYK Business Systems Americas, Inc. to learn more about what the company was doing and why they chose to deploy products from ExtraHop Networks (see the post, ExtraHop for more information about ExtraHop). [Read more…]
ExtraHop enters competitive networking management space
April 23, 2009
Seattle-based startup ExtraHop Networks, which develops tools that allow large companies to monitor and manage their networks, faces tough competition. Among the large tech companies that already sell networking management software and hardware include IBM (IBM.N) , Hewlett-Packard (HPQ.N) and Microsoft (MSFT.O). In addition, ExtraHop competes against Austin, Texas-based NetQoS Inc. and Westford, Mass.-based NetScout Systems Inc. [Read more…]
ExtraHop raises $5.1M to manage your network
April 14, 2009
ExtraHop, a company that makes devices for application and network management, has raised $5.1 million in a first round of venture funding from Madrona Venture Partners, as well as well-known angel investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. [Read more…]
Network Companies Secure Nearly $20 Million in VC Cash
April 14, 2009
Despite the economic downturn, investment firms are putting their faith and funding into network start-ups that promise to help corporate IT better manage application performance, virtual systems and information. While many companies consider layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, ExtraHop Networks… [is] securing venture capital funding, which could help them grow their compan[y] during the recession. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Hauls In $5.1M to Help Companies Manage Their Networks Efficiently
April 14, 2009
And the hits keep coming. In a busy week for financing deals, Seattle-based ExtraHop Networks is announcing today it has raised a $5.1 million Series A round, led by Madrona Venture Group. Prominent angel investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz also participated in the funding round, which closed at the end of February. [Read more…]
Marc Andreessen, Madrona back ExtraHop Networks with $5 mil.
April 14, 2009
ExtraHop Networks today is announcing $5.1 million in funding from Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, former Opsware CEO Ben Horowitz and Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group. [Read more…]
March 31, 2009
Management of systems, applications and various services has always been challenging. Add virtualization into the mix and the task becomes much more complex. I’ve spoken with a number of companies that have taken it upon themselves to address this issue. This time, I had an opportunity to speak with Jessie Rothstein, co-founder and CEO, of ExtraHop Networks about their Application Delivery Assurance system. [Read more…]
NSRI USA Deploys ExtraHop's Application Delivery Assurance System
March 25, 2009
NSRI, the IT division of a global Japanese shipping company and a marine transportation provider, reportedly has streamlined their application delivery support system by deploying ExtraHop’s Application Delivery Assurance system. [Read more…]
How to Save Time in Network Troubleshooting
March 23, 2009
The ExtraHop system starts auto-discovery, monitoring all apps, devices and transactions (tens of thousands of them, all in real time). The system sends out proactive alerts on potential problems, so network engineers don’t have to sift through mountains of offline packet dumps. [Read more…]
ExtraHop: like Google Maps for your network
February 9, 2009
Mission: Provide IT directors with an adjustable map of their computer network, with the ability to get a long-range view and to zoom in on specific areas. [Read more…]
December 17, 2008
ExtraHop Networks landed on the scene recently with an appliance designed to cut troubleshooting time for applications and network teams. Now the vendor is making its packet capture and analysis technology available via the iPhone. Because network engineers are increasingly mobile, ExtraHop designed its product with a user interface that was both minimal and complete. "We simplified the visualization and tried to expose the most useful metrics at a glance, to help users determine the right course of action quickly." [Read more…]
A Network Manager's Utility Belt
December 11, 2008
"The vigilant network manager, like Batman looking down on Gotham, knows that somewhere out there, something bad probably is happening — something that’s making an application go astray. But unlike the well-funded Dark Knight, the network manager isn’t equipped with the Batarangs, night vision, and a host of other gadgets to swoop down and quickly nail the problem. ExtraHop Networks’ Application Delivery Assurance Appliance, introduced earlier this week, doesn’t come with batwings, but…" [Read more…]
December 9, 2008
Every once in a while, a new company with an innovative technology comes along that makes you say “Wow, this is the beginning of something big.” Well, that was just the feeling I had when the ExtraHop Team first explained to me their vision and demonstrated their interface. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Debuts Application Delivery Appliance
December 8, 2008
"To meet the demands of today's complex applications, a new company called ExtraHop Networks is launching its revolutionary Application Delivery Assurance Appliance to move today's IT organizations beyond monitoring and toward holistic application assurance." [Read more…]
December 8, 2008
You don't see many new companies launching computer network appliances in this climate. But ExtraHop, a Seattle startup backed by Madrona Venture Group and led by former F5 Networks (engineers), is taking the leap. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Eases Application Performance
December 8, 2008
Many products on the market today are too high level or too detailed, with few capabilities to bridge the gap. ExtraHop recently said its ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance appliance provides both high-level, aggregate performance statistics, application-aware processing, and packet-level decodes, making the product suitable for both the business manager monitoring status and the network and application engineer troubleshooting issues. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance System
December 8, 2008
New start-up ExtraHop Networks' flagship product offering is a network traffic monitoring and analysis appliance that can be used by network administrators for such tasks as performance tuning, network troubleshooting, and capacity planning. The appliance is deployed passively on the network—off of a SPAN or TAP—and is able to automatically sniff and decipher the protocols it understands, displaying collected information in drill-down, point-and-click screens in a Web-based GUI. [Read more…]
ExtraHop's New Take on App Monitoring
December 5, 2008
Despite decades of effort, troubleshooting applications is still hard. ExtraHop, which comes out of stealth today with the launch of its Application Delivery Assurance Appliance, thinks it’s got the answer. Backed with $1.5 million from Madrona Venture Partners, the 10-person company is capitalizing on recent increases in switch and processing capacity that make it possible to analyze all the traffic on a network. [Read more…]
Start-up aims to reduce troubleshooting time
December 4, 2008
Seattle-based start-up ExtraHop Networks next week will unveil its flagship appliance that 10 beta customers put in place earlier this year to more quickly identify application performance problems across sophisticated, distributed networks. [Read more…]